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Image Schemas and Conceptual Metaphor in Action Comics", Elizabeth Potsch and Robert F. Williams, in Linguistics and the Study of Comics (Palgrave McMillan, 2012) uses the motion of the batarang to demonstrate how the reader interprets the action in a comic panel. "Batmobile Gets New Air-Cushion Ride", The Cincinnati Enquirer (May 27, 1966)
The Fijian monkey-faced bat (Mirimiri acrodonta), also known as the Fijian flying fox or Fijian flying monkey, is a megabat endemic to Fiji.It was discovered in old-growth cloud forest on Des Vœux Peak, the second highest mountain peak (1,195 m; 3,921 ft) on the island of Taveuni by William and Ruth Beckon in 1976, [2] and is Fiji's only endemic mammal. [3]
This is a list of fictional bats that appear in video games, film, television, animation, comics and literature. This list is subsidiary to the list of fictional animals . Since bats are mammals, yet can fly, they are considered to be liminal beings in various traditions. [ 1 ]
Here’s a familiar scenario: You’re traveling alone and ask a stranger to take your photo so you can remember your trip to this gorgeous locale. There’s just one problem. Your new ...
Icaronycteris is an extinct genus of microchiropteran (echolocating) bat that lived in the early Eocene, approximately , making it the earliest bat genus known from complete skeletons, and the earliest known bat from North America.
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Taylor Momsen performs live. Mariano Regidor/Redferns Taylor Momsen was bitten by a bat while performing onstage and will need rabies shots for the next two weeks. Momsen, 30, frontwoman for The ...
Longevity is commonly recognized as one of the Five Blessings (wǔfú 五福 – longevity, wealth, health, love of virtue, a peaceful death) of Chinese belief [3] that are often depicted in the homophonous rendition of five flying bats because the word for "bat" in Chinese (fú 蝠) sounds like the word for "good fortune" or "happiness" (fú ...